Opportunity of a lifetime

A new program is set to offer around 100 young musicians from China the chance to spend two weeks at a university in the United States.

Music director and conductor Cai Jindong always reminds his students that it is a privilege to express one's feeling through instruments.

The Chinese-born musician, who moved to the United States in 1985, initially for his graduate studies in music, joined the Stanford faculty in 2004, and has since worked as the director of orchestra studies there as well as the artistic director of the Stanford Youth Orchestra.